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FLORENCE – Students from all over the region visited Boone County High School for The World Maker and Inventor Expo on Saturday. Some students drove from Grant, Bracken and Gallatin counties to see drones, robots and everything STEAM. Science Technology Engineering Art and Math education was the focus at the event presented by NKY Marketplace. Cooper High School engineering students...

Teams to pitch business plans, models for share of $100,000 prize pool FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 21, 2016) – Thirty-one teams of Kentucky college undergraduate and graduate students will pitch their business ideas at the ninth annual Idea State U finals competition, set for Friday and Saturday at Griffin Gate Marriott in Lexington. In the lead up to this weekend’s finals, four rounds reg...

For the urban metro campus of Gateway Community & Technical College in downtown Covington, it's full speed ahead. Interim president Dr. Keith Bird told The River City News in an interview last week that rumors about the college abandoning some of its downtown plans were untrue. "Things that we have started are going to continue," Bird said. The chancellor emeritus of the Kentucky C...

UpTech, metro-Cincinnati’s informatics accelerator, in partnership with the HCDC Business Center, Bad Girl Ventures, Ohio River Valley Women’s Business Council and the Ohio Small Business Development Centers will be hosting a local competition for the SBA’s 2016 InnovateHER Challenge. The event will be locally sponsored by the Kentucky Innovation Network. The SBA describes In...

Villa Hills (7th), Fort Thomas (29th), and Edgewood (34th) named one of the 50 Best Suburbs in America by Business Insider. Factors include commute times, median household income, poverty rates, housing affordability, and crime statistics. There are thousands of suburbs around New York City alone, and a seemingly endless number of suburbs around the country, but not all of them are great places t...

Sarah Clark, Reporter October 24, 2015 Filed under Arts & Life, Campus Events The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization held its first elevator pitch competition Thursday evening in Griffin Hall’s Digitorium. The contest, labelled Pitch your Treat, consisted of five finalists that submitted their original business proposals a week earlier. They competed for cash...

Students working collaboratively in Makerspace (Photos provided) By Ryan Clark NKyTribune Contributor Gigi Watson and Skylar Dolan knew immediately what their favorite parts were after touring the NKY Makerspace campus in Burlington. It was the music and recording room. “I loved making music,” 9-year-old Gigi said. “It was so cool.” “Putting everything toget...

Archer Daniels Midland Co., a Fortune 500 company, is set to hire 100 workers for its new information technology center that opened late last month in Erlanger. The company is hosting a hiring event this week for mainly IT and business positions, which include business analysts, technical architects and web developers. ADM, an agriculture processor and food ingredient company, is recruiting afte...

The remnants of Covington Landing stood behind Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear on Wednesday as he praised what he believes will be a new age for Covington's riverfront. He presented a check for $3.9 million to Covington and $530,000 to Dayton to build large portions of the Riverfront Commons trail. He also presented $976,000 to the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky for two electric hybrid ...

Northern Kentucky University leaders see the development of a Health Innovation Center as more than a gleaming $97 million building in the heart of the Highland Heights campus. They – along with Gov. Steve Beshear and regional health care industry officials – see an opportunity to provide a new approach to education and health care delivery. NKU hosted a groundbreaking ceremony ...